July 10th is my date.....

and I am nervous, and at the moment...very HUNGRY. I am also very excited to be having this done...2 years of researching and figuring out which doctor to have do this will come to fruition in 8 days!

HI! I have a July 10th date too! I am scared, excited, nervous and any other emotion you can think of! What kind of diet did they put you on? I have a 24 hr. clear liquid diet only. I know a lot of people seem to have different ones! Good Luck! Jodi :-D

I have a 14 day liquid diet, but that LD includes things like sugar-free jello and pudding and no sugar added applesauce. I have to go on a clear liquid diet as of 24 hours before.

Hi Laurie! I can completely relate on the hunger thing. My surgery is the 10th as well. Liquid diet too... but thankfully not clear liquids till Monday

Hi everyone!! I am scheduled for the 10th as well. Looks like we've got quite a club going!! My emotions were all over the place last week but I feel strangely calm this week (well, so far anyway!!!). I don't have to do the liquid diet either except for next Monday. Good luck to all of you!!! Hugs, Donna

Yea, July 10ers!!! I can't stop thinking or talking (to anyone who will listen -my poor DH) about the adventure we are beginning!!! I am feeling mostly excited and impatient because the time doesn't seem to be going fast enough for me. Then, I think, WOW, it's only a week a way!!! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.......

Me too!!!!!! I have run the whole spectrum of emotions as well, a few times!! Day 9 of the liquid diet, having a blast!! I just keep telling mysel, and anyone who listens, its all worth it in the long run!! Good luck to all of you!!!! 1 week from now, we will all be on our way! Betsy

Wooooo Hoooooo! me, too!

July 10th is also my date, I am not nervous about the surgery, because I have been reasured that everything will be fine and I have talked with people who have had the same surgeon as mine and they are all doing well. I hope that I have everything done at the house that I possibly can get done, cleaned out the frig. the pantry, all the hiding places for food, cleaned out my closet, dresser and also my car (sounds funny but I have all of my gym clothes in the back of my car). I can relate to being hungry though, I am so hungry I cried the other day on the phone with my dad, and I cried just like a baby. At first he thought it was because I was nervous and I told him no that I am just so hungry I can't stand it. I am use to walking 3 miles a day, but since I had nerve surgery on my right foot April, 1 2005, I hadn't been able to walk that much because fo my weight. When I finally made the decision to have WLS I started walking and eating eating better and I have taken off 50 lbs. The problem that I am having now is that with all of the walking that I do, my foot has gotten very swollen and tender. Both my husband and my daughter have told me that I was pushing myself to hard. Basically, I can't wait for the surgery and just to get on with the rest of my life. I want to enjoy my kids while I stilll have them at home. I want to walk on the beach with my husband again, go shopping and buy something off of the rack and actually have it fit......I have a long list of this that I can't wait to start doing..

I am also a July 10th girl. I just found out Friday that my date is the 10th. Went for my PAt's yesterday and got put on my CL diet until surgery day. I have done Atkins before so cutting out the sugar and carbs isn't a HUGE deal for me. However, apparently not being able to eat hardly anything is. I have felt pukey and headachey all day. I just feel so so very sick that I want to eat. I am not going to eat, but I have this nasty suspicion that that is the only thing that is going to get rid of this. Tylenol sure as heck isn't. Tommorow is going to suck royally because I am going to be at a work location with no microwave, so i will not even have broth. Jello and water is it. Makes me really really wish next Tuesday was here already.